Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) welcomes RFK Jr. to today's House Approps Committee hearing by ripping 1) his "disastrous" HHS budget request (it cuts $33B from HHS) and 2) his "misinformation and lies" about vaccines.
"Mr. Secretary, you are gutting the life-saving work of the Dept of HHS."
"Mr. Secretary, you are gutting the life-saving work of the Dept of HHS."
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"Why on earth these the places you are terminating for so-called waste?" she asks him.
She lashes him for the measles outbreak that's now spread to 1000 ppl; 3 have died.
"All while you peddle unfounded and dangerous vaccine skepticism, spread lies and misinfo."
"I'm worried about a future public health crisis that emerges once the Trump administration has fully dismantled the nation's public health system."
"You claim to be reorganizing NIH. Any reorganizing of NIH must go through the Congress," she tells him.
"Mr. Secretary, you have no lawful authority to undertake this by yourself."
They need to throw their weight to show the fascists they will not go quietly.
Bully this asshole until he cries.
"We are in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis ... and you and Elon Musk and President Trump are making worse."
Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.), the subcommittee chairman: "Alright, uh, Mr. Secretary, we look forward to your opening remarks."
LOL
If RFK Jr. Caught brain-eating bacteria and Darwinism did its thing with him, the world would be a better place.
GET HIM OUT OF THIS OFFICE ASAP!
Goes back to at least Grover Norquist, who wanted a government so useless you could ‘drown it in a bathtub’. Totally useless. Fucking crazypants.
RFK, Jr. went to Harvard. Used and sold heroin.
Swims in shit. A total kook with a worm in his brain.
And he is now setting the Gold Standard for the students at Texas A&M.
How dare her insult A&M in that manner!